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by Susan Jaques


  Pont du Gard, 106

  pontifex maximus, 45, 186

  pope, election of, 40–41, 43–45. See also specific popes

  Popkin, Maggie, 196, 198

  porcelain, 245–247, 292–293

  porphyry, 26

  portrait busts, 278, 287, 293, 344

  portrait medals, 226–228

  Portugal, 264, 405

  Possagno, Italy, 73

  possesso, 446

  Potsdam, 208

  Potts, Alex, xii

  power dressing, 98

  Poyet, Bernard, 220

  Praxiteles, 10, 18

  Prefect of the Seine, 51

  Prima Porta Augustus, 211

  “primitives” of Tuscany, 390–391, 421, 440

  Principate, 374

  Prix de Rome, 58, 231

  Proconnesian marble, 284

  Profane Museum, 17

  Proserpina, 124

  provincial museums, 95, 257–258, 439

  Prud’hon, Pierre, 332

  Prussia, 175, 208, 209, 214, 414

  Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss (Canova), 72

  Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss (Canova), 71

  Ptolemaic dynasty, 24–25

  Ptolemy I, 30, 306

  public relations, 230–231

  public works projects, 409–414

  Puccini, Tommaso, 83

  Punic Wars, 7

  purple, 141–142, 324–325

  Pyramid of Cestius, 76

  Pyramids, Battle of the, 30, 31

  Pyrrhic victory, 406

  Pyrrhus, 6, 8

  Q

  quadriga, 6

  Quai d’Orsay, 220

  quarries, marble, 282–287

  Quatremère de Quincy, Antoine, 19, 79, 81, 82, 380, 381, 383, 384, 452, 456

  Quinet, Edgar, 473

  Quirinale Palace, 297–299, 300, 303, 390, 399–403, 435, 448

  R

  Rabirius, 180

  Radet, General, 299, 300

  Raffaelli, Giacomo, 149–150

  Ramolino, Maria-Letizia, 273

  Rapelli, Paul, 135

  Raphael, 12, 91, 258

  Ravenna, 10, 121, 122

  Raymond, Jean-Arnaud, 86, 89, 202

  Récamier, Juliette, 98

  Recueil de déorations intérieures, 68

  Redentore, 198

  Rega, Filippo, 261

  Regnaud de Saint-Jean d’Angély, Michel, 315

  relics, 126, 127, 128, 130, 131, 134, 165, 368, 376, 458

  religion

  Christianity, 27, 45–46, 101–102, 121–122, 129–130, 198

  Egyptian, 25

  Napoleon’s use of, 49, 51–52

  reliquaries, 126, 128, 165

  Rémusat, Claire de, 111, 237–238

  Renaissance, 11, 226–228, 233, 254, 285

  Renier, Daniele, 289

  Renier, Paolo, 46

  repatriation of art, 433–445

  Res Gestae Divi Augusti, 471–472

  Rezzonico, Don Abbondio, 74

  Rhine River, 106–107

  Ribeiro, Aileen, 98

  Robertson, Andrew, 444

  Robespierre, 12

  Robinson, H. Russell, 210

  Rococo style, 69

  Roederer, Pierre Louis, 255

  Rollason, David, 367

  Roman arches, 193–198

  Roman army, xi–xii

  Roman cameos, 356–359

  Roman coins, 230, 412

  Romanelli, Giovanni Franesco, 86

  Roman Empire, xiii, 9–10

  architecture, 180–181

  art and culture of, 122

  bridges of, 106–107

  building by, 187

  coinage of, 222–226

  collapse of, 119

  Egypt and, 25–28

  funerals in, 373–376

  influence on Charlemagne, 120–121

  jewelry in, 329

  libraries of, 306–307

  luxury goods in, 243–244

  marble in, 282–284

  nepotism in, 254

  nudity in, 385–387

  provinces of, 253–254

  weddings in, 327

  Roman Forum, 5, 10, 184, 194, 254, 374, 390

  Romania, 180

  Roman Republic, xiii, 3–9, 222–223, 465

  Roman soldiers, 209–210

  Roman togas, 98–99

  Rome

  academy system, 58

  altarpieces of, 19

  ancient, 3–10

  annexation of, by France, 302, 312

  aqueducts, 103–106

  art plunder of, 121, 122–123

  calendar of, 186

  Canova in, 73–77

  catacombs, 375–377

  churches, 122

  as cultural capital, xii–xiii

  excavations in, 389

  fountains, 248–250

  French Academy in, 58–59, 75

  French controlled, 73

  king of, 351–356

  loss of antiquities of, to France, 15–21, 275–279

  rebirth of, 124–125, 450

  renovations in, 389–390

  Republic of, 40

  return of art of, 435–441

  ruins and monuments, 59

  sacking of, 10, 122

  sewer system, 104–105

  triumphs, 20

  villas of, 18

  water supply, 105–106

  Romulus, 6

  Romulus’ Victory over Acron (Ingres), 402

  Rondelet, Jean-Baptiste, 108

  Room of Peace, 401

  Rosenberg, Pierre, 199

  Rosetta Stone, 36, 435

  Rossi, Lino, 179

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 106

  Roustam, Raza, 35, 241

  Rowell, Diana, xiii, 193

  Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures, 265

  Royal Navy, 173

  Royal Palace, 260

  royal palaces, reappropriation of, 71. See also specific palaces

  Ruben, Peter Paul, 14, 159

  rue de la Victoire, 56–57

  rue de Rivoli, 109–110

  Ruskin, John, 457–458

  Russia, xv, 34, 174–176, 186, 214, 313–314, 395, 404, 406–408, 414

  Rutilius, 106

  S

  Saale, 414

  Sacre, 145–161

  Sacre (David), 159–160

  Sacred College, 305

  Saint Bernard, 185

  Saint Denis, 101, 102, 134, 135, 139, 366–370, 370–371

  Sainte Chapelle, 359

  Saint Geneviève, 101

  Saint Napoleon, 168

  Saint-Napoleon Day, 168

  Saints Innocents, 377

  Salian Franks, 101

  Salon Carré, 90, 323

  Salon of 1804, 94

  San Giorgio Maggiore, 39–43, 46, 49, 198, 290

  sanitation system, 104–105

  Santa Maria ad Martyres, 122

  Sant’Ambrogio, 165

  Santarelli, Giovanni, 292

  Santi, Lorenzo, 291

  Santiago de Compostela, 126

  sarcophagus, 36–37

  Sardinia, 25

  savants, 28–29, 30, 31

  Savary, Anne-Jean-Marie-René, 65

  Savonnerie, 71

  scarlet dye, 325

  scepter of Charles V, 134–135

  scepters, 134–135

  Schadow, Johann Gottfried, 211

  Schönbrunn Palace, 308–310

  Scientific and Artistic Commission of Egypt, 28

  Scipio, Lucius, 4, 6, 8

  Scipio, Metellus, 412

  sculpture. See also specific works

  of Canova, 71–84

  Egyptian, 26

  heroic nudes, 380–387

  use of enemy weapons for, 189

  Second Empire, 476

  second Italian campaign, 47–52, 94–95

  Second Republic, 476

  Second Temple, 10

  Second Trea
ty of Paris, 434

  Ségur, Louis-Philippe de, 152, 238, 239

  Seine River, 100, 103

  Selva, Diannantonio, 290

  Seneca, 243–244

  Serapis, 25, 26

  Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, 30, 465

  Seven Years’ War, 208, 212

  Severus, Septimius, 194–196, 212, 253, 270, 356–357, 466

  Sèvres Commander’s Table, 469–470

  Sèvres porcelain factory, 245–247, 361

  sewer system, 104–105

  shawls, 98

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 249, 450

  She-Wolf, 123

  shields, 157

  Sicily, 8, 25

  Siegel, Jonah, 434

  Sieyès, Emmanuel, 35, 36

  silk industry, 70–71

  Sistine Chapel, 298

  Sixth Coalition, 414

  Sixtus V, 28, 185, 249, 298

  Sleeping Hermaphrodite, 277

  soldiers’ uniforms, 209–210

  Soli, Giuseppe Maria, 291

  Sorabella, Jean, 253–254

  Sosigenes, 186

  Spain, 264–266, 415–416, 417, 462

  Spartans, 28

  Spartianus, 108

  Spence, Rachel, 75

  Stammers, Tom, 60, 68, 409

  statues, 7, 12. See also specific works

  cuirassed, 211

  Egyptian, 26

  Staufen arm-reliquary, 128

  Steiner, Frances, 189

  Stendhal, 13, 238, 424, 444, 456

  Stephen II, 146

  Stern, Raffaele, 399, 402, 448

  St. George and the Dragon (Carpaccio), 43

  St. Helena, xv, 428–430, 446, 472–473

  stock exchange building, 220–221

  Stories of Alexander the Great, 170

  Strabo, 33, 283, 367

  St. Stephen, 40

  St. Stephen’s feast day, 40

  succession, line of, 111, 140, 255

  Suetonius, 5

  Suger, Abbot, 368

  Swiss Guard, 300, 377

  sword, of Napoleon, 191

  Syracuse, 7

  Syria, 31, 34, 180

  T

  Table of the Grand Commanders (Parant), 246–247, 361, 469–470

  Table of the Imperial Palaces, 470–471

  Table of the Marshals, 247

  table services, 245–247

  Tadgell, Christopher, 193

  Tadolini, Adamo, 84

  Taenareum marble, 284

  Talisman of Charlemagne, 128

  Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice de, 44, 49, 78, 129, 167, 239, 314, 417, 420, 436

  Tallien, Thérésa, 98

  Talma, François-Joseph, xii

  tapestries, 170, 172–173, 301

  Tarquins, 5

  tea service, 328

  Te Deum Mass, 131

  Temple of Artemis, 465

  Temple of Concord, 215

  Temple of Dendera, 33

  Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, 5

  Temple of the Muses, 306

  Temple of Vespasian and Titus, 221

  temples

  Egyptian, 26, 33, 34

  Roman, 121–122

  Temple to the Glory of the Grande Armée, xiv, 216–221, 410, 479

  Tenth Squadron, 51

  Teotochi, Isabella, 459

  Tetrarchy, 197–198

  textile industry, 99

  Thebes, 33

  Theodolina, 165

  Theodoric, 122, 123

  Theodosius, 184

  Thermes de Cluny, 101

  Theseus and the Minotaur (Canova), 74, 76

  Thibault, Jean-Thomas, 262

  Thiers, Adolphe, 480

  Third Coalition, 174–176

  The Third of May 1808 (Goya), 266

  Thirty Years’ War, 414

  Thomas, Edmund, 108

  Thomire, Pierre-Philippe, 62, 156, 244, 398

  Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 402, 451

  Three Emperors, Battle of the, 175–176

  The Three Graces (Canova), 422, 457

  thrones, 242–243, 398

  Thury, Louis-Étienne Héricart de, 378

  tiaras, papal, 46, 167, 450

  Tiberius, 283, 357, 358–359

  Tiber River, 105–106

  Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 75

  Tintoretto, Jacopo, 41

  titles of nobility, 241

  Titus, 10, 203–204, 204–205

  togas, 98–99

  Tolstoy, Leo, 405

  tombs, 376

  Torrigiano, Bastiano, 185

  Toulon, 22–23

  Tournai, 114

  Toynbee, Jocelyn, 225–226

  traffic, 251

  Trajan, 105, 107, 174, 179–181, 183–185, 187, 225, 306, 356, 472

  Trajan’s Baths, 180

  Trajan’s Column, 172–173, 181–191, 196, 331, 472

  Trajan’s Forum, 180–181, 184, 375

  Transfiguration (Raphael), 91

  Transfiguration (Raphael), 12

  Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt during the Campaigns of General Bonaparte (Denon), 87–88

  Treaty of Amiens, 79, 171, 381

  Treaty of Campo Formio, 15, 39, 47, 63, 229

  Treaty of Fontainebleau, 291–292, 421

  Treaty of Lunéville, 70, 78, 83, 128

  Treaty of Paris, 423, 434

  Treaty of Posen, 213–214

  Treaty of Pressburg, 176

  Treaty of Tilsit, 404

  Treaty of Tolentino, 15, 17, 43, 46, 167, 436, 437, 438

  Treaty of Vienna, 310, 427

  triumphal arch clock, 149–150

  triumphal arches, 192–206

  triumphs, 6–11, 20, 217

  The Triumphs of Caesar (Mantegna), 11

  True Cross, 165

  Tuileries Garden, 323

  Tuileries Palace, 63–66, 70, 103, 109, 150, 155–156, 193, 242–243, 332, 479

  Tullianum, 5

  Turenne, Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, 370–372

  Turin, 171, 267–268

  Turner, J.M.W., 79

  turquoise, 96

  Tuscany, 282, 303

  Two Sicilies, 258

  typhus, 407

  U

  Ubbicebr UU, 122

  Uffizi Gallery, 83

  uniforms, 99

  University of Paris, 102

  Urban VIII, 298–299, 450

  V

  Valadier, Giuseppe, 447

  Val d’Aosta, 269

  Valletta, 29

  Valois, Achille, 252

  Vandals, 10, 122

  Vanvitelli, Carlo, 260

  Vanvitelli, Luigi, 260

  Varazze, Jacopo da, 43

  Vasari, Giorgio, 12, 391

  vases, 149

  Vatican, xii, 16–17, 16–18, 77, 86, 299, 448

  Vatican Archives, 17, 305

  Vatican Library, 441

  Vatican Medagliere, 229–230

  Vatican Pinacoteca, 17

  Vatican Virgil, 17

  Vauban, 372

  Vaudey, Elisabeth de, 132

  Veii, 6

  Vendôme Column, xiv, 187–191, 331–332

  Venetian Republic, 15, 288, 291

  Venice, xiv, 59, 200, 444–445

  Canova and, 73

  French invasion of, 38–39

  Napoleon and, 48–49, 288–291

  occupation of, by Napoleon, 15

  plague in, 39

  reversion to Austria, 440

  Venus, 83–84, 91

  Venus Italica (Canova), 403

  Venus Victrix (Canova), 269–275

  Vercingetorix, 5

  Veronese, Paolo, 12–13, 41–42, 159

  Verres, 8

  Versailles, 64, 71

  Vespasian, 10, 203, 466

  Vestal Virgins, 317, 471

  Vienna, xiv, 175, 307–308, 309–310

  Vignon, Pierre-Alexandre, 216, 217, 219–220

  Villa Albani, 18

  Villa Borghese, 275–279<
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  Villa Marlia, 281

  Villa Napoleon, 389

  Villa of the Papryi, 306

  Villa Pisani, 257

  Villeneuve, Pierre-Charles, 174–175

  Vincennes, 102

  Visconti, Ennio, 80, 85–86, 275–276, 381

  Visconti, Giovanni Battista, 85

  Visigoths, 122

  Vitellius, 415

  Vitoria, Battle of, 415

  Volpato, Domenica, 74

  Volpato, Giovanni, 76

  Voltaire, 51, 103, 370, 381

  Volterra, Daniele da, 19

  W

  Waleska, Marie, 307, 332

  war booty, 7–10, 13–21, 30

  Warsaw, Poland, 214

  Washington, George, 453–454

  Waterloo, Battle of, xv, 427, 434, 461, 467

  Waterloo Banquet, 469

  water supply, 103–106, 248, 252

  Wedding at Cana (Veronese), 41–42, 440

  Wedding at Cana (Veronese), 12–13

  The Wedding Celebration of Hercules and Hebe (Prud’hon), 332

  weddings

  Napoleon and Marie Louise, 322–328

  Roman, 327

  Wellesley, Arthur, 405

  Werckmeister, Otto, 173

  Western Roman Empire, 122

  Western Schism, 40

  Westphalia, 213, 215, 256, 418

  white marble, 282–287

  William I, 213

  William the Conqueror, xiii, 172, 173

  Y

  Yarrington, Alison, 286

  Z

  Zanker, Paul, 8

  Zardo, Angela, 385

  Zarzeczny, Matthew, xiii, 129, 170

  Zeuxis, 10

  Ziegler, Jules-Claude, 480

  Zix, Benjamin, 190, 213, 390

  Zulian, Girolamo, 73

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  Copyright © 2018 Susan Jaques

  First Pegasus Books edition December 2018

  Frontispiece: Bust of Napoleon I by Lorenzo Bartolini at the Louvre Museum, Paris.

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